Audrey L. Altstadt’s scientific contributions

... In spite of the seventy-one years of tragic communist experience, Azerbaijani political culture was not exposed to serious disorder (Cornell, 2011). By the February Revolution, Azerbaijani lands had been under the control of the Russian authoritarian regime for almost a century, but in 1918, sacrificing some of its lands, Azerbaijan managed to declare its independence and the government's reforms became successful on the path to democracy (Swietochowski, 1985). In 1991, Azerbaijan became independent for the second time in the middle of economic and political crises and the relevant steps towards democracy were taken, which had already been restarted by 1988, in response to the society's d emand. ...

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The Impact of Mental Models on the Transition from Communism to Capitalism. The Comparative Case Study of Azerbaijan and Poland